Hip hop meets sci-fi in writer/director Joe Cornish’s flashy, funky, cult-friendly debut feature. The film takes place one fateful night in and around a London housing block, when small meteors begin falling to earth. These aren’t ordinary meteors, but the first wave of an alien invasion.

An affectionate, low-budget black-and white horror spoof that marks a tour-de-farce for writer, producer, director, editor, special effects wizard and leading man Joshua Kennedy who was all of 16 when he made it. Hey, Orson Welles was 26 when he made Citizen Kane,.

Having begun his career in nudie cutie films, Lewis scored with gore in Blood Feast (1963), Two Thousand Maniacs (64), The Wizard of Gore (1970) and others. Trashed by critics and condemned in some communities, they were cheap, cheesy and immensely profitable.

Sophie Vavasseur gives an intense, credible performance as Emma Evans, a typical teenager whose expected adolescent angst is compounded by hallucinations, blackouts and seizures. As Emilys behavior begins to alter, it has severe physical and psychological effects on both her and her family.

This is prime exploitation moviemaking, with plenty of sleaze and sadism on display throughout. Yet its surprisingly well-made, with nice work from top-billed Christopher George as the maverick cop on the Exterminators trail and Samantha Eggar (slumming a bit) as a sympathetic doctor who manages not to get caught in the crossfire.

Blue Sunshine was the street name of a particularly potent strain of LSD that was popular among college students at Stanford University in the 1960s. Now, a decade later and a decade older, theyre starting to rapidly lose their hair and then (even more rapidly) their minds, going into sudden psychotic rages.

Ray Liotta, Victor Garber and Stephen McHattie portray three wealthy friends whose children (Dustin Milligan, John Bregar and Laura Vandervoort) are being held for ransom. Unless the fathers pay $3 million ($1 million for each child), its game over..

At long last, one of the best and most influential TV anthologies comes to DVD in a boxed set ($39.97 retail) containing all 21 episodes from the premiere 1973-74 season of the critically acclaimed prime-time NBC police drama, which scored an Emmy nomination as Outstanding Drama Series in its first year.

All-American teen geek Tobe (Dustin Ingram) travels to Indiana, ostensibly to sell his vintage truck but instead encountering the object of his overheated adolescent affections: 80s porn queen Monica Velour (Cattrall), star of such classics as Saturday Night Beaver and Pork n Mindy.

The only film directed by actor Charles Laughton, this 1955 adaptation of Davis Grubbs novel (scripted by James Agee) was not a success when first released, but has since rightfully taken its place among the classics.

Matthew McConaughey is ideally cast in this adaptation of Michael Connellys best-seller, playing Los Angeles legal eagle Mick Haller, so nicknamed the Lincoln Lawyer because his Lincoln Continental, replete with trusty driver Earl (Laurence Mason), serves as his law office.

Smooth pacing and engaging performances make all the difference in director/co-writer Jeff Stephensons low-budget feature debut, a comedy/drama about a group of college friends reuniting for a wedding.

In the annals of World War II movies, its safe to say youve never seen one this one, which rewrites history by speculating that the Third Reich invaded Britain and proceeded to plow through downtown London with guns blazing and bombs bursting.

Following a nuclear holocaust, the Earth is now a desolate, godforsaken wasteland plagued by giant scorpions, killer cockroaches and cheesy rear-projection special effects.

Adapted from Rick Porellos non-fiction best-seller To Kill the Irishman: The War That Crippled the Mafia by director Jonathan Hensleigh, the film depicts Greenes war on the Cleveland underworld, a situation that grows increasingly embarrassing for the entrenched Italian mob as he repeatedly survives attempts on his life.

TV producer David Prentice (Ian Carmichael) has an idea for a series that will showcase the real lives of celebrity couple Simon and Laura Foster. Reasons Prentice: Theyre doing the same thing in America and with great success. (Little could he ever imagine.

Remaking Alfred Hitchcock indeed, one of his most popular films might seem like courting disaster, but this cheerful 1959 thriller replicates the Master without rancor or insult.

Thomas Dekker plays Smith, an 18-year-old college freshman wrestling with adolescent angst by way of sexual experimentation (with both sexes), substance abuse, self-analysis and other teenaged pursuits. Sometimes he even goes to class, but what he really learns happens outside the classroom.

Ralph Meeker perfectly embodies Mickey Spillanes twofisted private eye Mike Hammer in this wild, weird 1955 film noir classic from ace director Robert Aldrich.

Filmed, remarkably, in eight days, the film follows suburban teens Megan (Rachel Quinn) and Amy (Amber Perkins). Megans the popular, impetuous one. Amys the unpopular, dowdy one. Theyre best friends and they spend a lot of time on-line, and its there that Megan first begins communicating with smooth-talking Josh (Dean Waite).